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[Buttons] Stuck quick disconnects and plastic nuts...
kagaden:
... DRIVE ME CRAAAAAZY!
I just installed new buttons on a showcase CP and am now doing so on my X-Arcade and WHY ON EARTH are some of these so STUBBORN to remove? I feel like my fingers are going to fall off. WTF.
Does anyone have tips on removing them so I can maintain my sanity?
kagaden:
I'm going to add e-clips to my list of hate... :banghead:
scotthh:
--- Quote from: kagaden on August 30, 2008, 02:58:49 am ---... DRIVE ME CRAAAAAZY!
I just installed new buttons on a showcase CP and am now doing so on my X-Arcade and WHY ON EARTH are some of these so STUBBORN to remove? I feel like my fingers are going to fall off. WTF.
Does anyone have tips on removing them so I can maintain my sanity?
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Needle-nose pliers.
--- Quote from: kagaden on August 30, 2008, 04:43:13 am ---I'm going to add e-clips to my list of hate... :banghead:
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Put a small jeweler's screwdriver in and turn it to pry the e-clip open.
Ginsu Victim:
I feel your pain. When I took the LED bayonets off all my lighted buttons, I could not get a single ground wire off the lights. I had to leave them all hooked up together and removed them all in one massive tangle.
Even needle-nose pliers wouldn't get the ground wires off them.
I'm scared I'm going to break them if I pull any harder.
mrjah:
--- Quote from: scotthh on August 30, 2008, 09:00:43 am ---Put a small jeweler's screwdriver in and turn it to pry the e-clip open.
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Yes! This is the way.
I used to use a pair of pliers to push the e-clip off, and catch it in a box so it wouldn't scoot under a workbench or otherwise disappear. It worked well, but was complicated and annoying. Then I looked closely at the clip and noticed those two nice little slots between the clip and the joystick handle. Game over -- a little twist with a jeweler's screwdriver, and it's off and under control.
Wish I had noticed that a year ago. :dunno
As for removing a quick disconnect, make sure you get the pliers' jaws down low enough to pull the entire disconnect off the terminal -- not just the wire or the colored sleeve. Grab it too high, pull hard, and you might tear the thing apart. Then you're right back at square one, but with a broken disconnect!
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